Garment supporter



May 25 1926.

J. P. CROQSDALE GARMENT SUPPORTER Filed Nov. 17. 1922 Patented May 25,1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

JOHN P. CROASDALE, OF BERWYN, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR '10 PIONEER SUSPEN-DER COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF PENNSYLVANIA.

GARMENT SUPPORTEIE.

Application filed November 17, 1922. Serial No. 601,498.

My invention relates to garment supporters. The object is to provide animproved castoit, or disengageable means for uniting two parts of thesupporter so that said parts may be assembled in the simplest and mostefiicient way, so that the stresses shall be properly distributed and sothat the castoll elements shall all be protected from contact with theunderlying surfaces.

Referring to the drawings which illustrate merely by way of example,asuitable embodiment of my invention Fig. 1 is an elevation of a wideweb garter containing my invention with the cast-oft elements separated.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary elevation showing the cast-off elements inengagement.

Fig. 3 is a section through line 33 of Fig. 2.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In the embodiment herein shown, 4 indicates the leg band of a wide webgarter, 5 the connecting strip or element which supports the stockingclasp 6. This connecting strip or supporting element 5 is secured to oneend of the leg band l. To the free end o1 the leg band 4 is secured onecast-oil member 7 and the adjusting slide 8. To the opposite side ofconnecting strip or supporting element 5, from that to which leg band 4:is secured, is secured the short single strip of webbing or othersuitable flexible material 9. This strip 9 is threaded through thecooperating cast-off member 10 which is a body having two slots andthree bars, the two outside bars flanking the slots while the middle barlies between the two slots, the outer marginal bar. remote from strip 5is provided with the cast-01f engaging means, such for example as post11. After threading strip 9 through cast-ofi' member 10 the strip 9 isfolded back upon itself and again passed through the two slots of member10, beneath the layer first threaded as clearly shown in Fig. 3. Theportion of material extending beyond or to the right of member 10 andfolded back upon itself forms an extension 12 which underlies bothcast-oil members 7 and 11 when they are in engagement.

It will be understood that various forms of cast-01f elements may beused and their relative positions may be transposed.

It will be understood that, while webbing is indicated as a suitablematerial for the structure shown, strips of other flexible materials maybe used, and that the invention may also be applied to garmentsupporters other than garters.

Vhat I claim is:

In a garter, the combination of a leg band, a stocking clasp and claspsupporting body, one end of the leg band secured to the clasp supportingbody, a cast-01f element secured to the other end of the leg band, arelatively short single flexible band also secured to the claspsupporting body, and a second castoff element having a pair of slotsthrough each of which the said relatively short flexible band isthreaded twice so as to cover all under surfaces of said second cast-offelement and also to provide a folded portion extending beyond saidsecond cast-off element and beneath said first east-off element whensaid elements are in engagement.

JNO. P. CROASDALE.

